Dog food.. The Goodlife Recipe, By Nature Organic Dog food, or Science Diet?

Question

I have two chihuahuas.. which do you recommend?

Answer 1

By Nature Organic is definitely the top choice!
(I feed my cat a mixture of that brand and Blue Buffalo)

Science Diet is 2nd best.

The Goodlife Recipe, is actually full of junk if you look at the ingredients, so definitely NOT recommended.

Answer 2

Science Diet is junk. The Goodlife Recipe, has me leary since they seem to be relunctant to post an actual ingredients list on their website.

Compare its ingredients to what it takes to make a high quality food.

Nothing you find at a grocery store is going to be a good food. High quality foods can be found at large pet store chains, or online. A couple of foods I like are Nutro Natural, Innova, and Cannidae.

There are other high quality dog foods. Here's how to spot them:

A high quality food will have little or no fillers such as corn, wheat or soy. These aren't very digestable for dogs, and are common food related allergens. Since you were seeing corn meal in the first few ingredients, those are not high quality foods. Foods list ingredients by content, with the ingredient it contains most of at the top.

A high quality food will not contain BHT, BHA or Ethoxyquin, these are all chemical preservatives that have been linked to cancer.

A high quality food will not contain by-products of any kind. Meat meals are ok as long as the source of the meat is listed, such as Chicken Meal.

A high quality diet should have meat as at least the first ingredient., and be made from human grade ingredients. Foods that don't use human grade ingredients often get their ingredients from less than desirable sources, such as meat from animals that were diseased, or euthanized.

There is another diet option other than dog food. Some people choose to feed a raw diet. This involves feeding the dog raw meaty bones and organ meat. However it is not as simple as throwing a couple chicken bones in a bowl everyday. If you wish to feed this type of diet, do lots and lots of research first. Switching to this diet without knowing what your doing can lead to nutritional problems for your dog. I'll give you some links as a starting point in research if you are interested in this type of diet.

http://www.willowglen.com/barf.htm

http://www.bestfrisbeedogs.com/diets.html

http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html

http://www.rawfed.com/myths/index.html

http://www.rawdogranch.com

What's Really In Pet Food
http://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=359&more=1cat=286

Answer 3

Science Diet....the brand that poisoned my cat? I'd stay far away. Below is a URL with a comprehensive listing of companies with products not on the recall, and how they manufacture their products. If they won't fully disclose that information, I'd stay away from them:

http://petsitusa.com/blog/?p=210

Answer 4

i recommend http://www.frrco.com/121668 because of the human grade ingredients, none of their foods are on the recall list, they have a money back guarantee, and you feed less because the dog actually digest and uses more of it than other foods.